Question

Hola, me ayudan con esta practica de Inglés,

II.- Fill in was – were- wasn’t – weren’t into the gaps
(Rellenar estaba - estaban - no estaba - no estaban en los espacios en blanco. )

1.- Was I the oldest? No, you __________.
02.- Were you tired? Yes, I _________.
03.- Were they ready? Yes, they ________.
04.- Was Sara there? No, she _________.
05.- Were they from Italy? No, they __________.
06.- Was your dad angry? Yes, he_________.
07.- Was it cold? No, it _________.
08.- Was I sleeping? Yes, you _______.
09.- Were you playing? No, we _________.
10.- Was it a dream? Yes, it _______.
11.- Were you on the bus? No, I _________.
12.- Was there a beach? Yes, there _______

P. D (si no sabes no repondas) Thank you

Answer 1

Summary of One Hundred Years of Solitude

The novel is structured in unnamed chapters. However, to facilitate understanding of the argument, we have arranged and separated the story into four stages that identify, broadly speaking, the most emblematic passages.

I stage: foundation and early years of Macondo

Since Úrsula Iguarán married her cousin José Arcadio Buendía, she has been afraid of fathering a child with a pig's tail as a result of the relationship. For this reason, she temporarily refuses to consummate the marriage. This is why Prudencio Aguilar mocks José Arcadio Buendía who, offended, kills her in a duel to save her honor. Since then, Aguilar's ghost haunts him and José Arcadio decides to leave town.

Inspired by a dream during his journey through the jungle, José Arcadio Buendía decides to stay at that point on the road and found Macondo, a town that grows little by little.

The town frequently receives visits from gypsies. Its leader, Melquíades, always brings artifacts and objects that obsess José Arcadio Buendía.

By then, the young couple has already conceived three children: José Arcadio, Aureliano and Amaranta. In addition, they adopt Rebeca, the daughter of some relatives. Incest is a constant concern in Úrsula, who over the years observes how Receba and her son José Arcadio fall in love and get married.

In Macondo comes the plague of insomnia, which brings with it that of forgetfulness. A concoction of Melquiades puts an end to the plague. The success is such that the gypsy stays to live in Macondo, during which time he writes some scrolls that will only be deciphered many years later.

The patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, meets again the ghost of Aguilar and goes crazy. The family then ties him to a tree in the backyard, where he will die of a heart attack.

II stage: the civil war and Colonel Aureliano Buendía

When the civil war broke out, Aureliano Buendía fought against the conservatives, commanding a group of soldiers from Macondo. He names his nephew Arcadio as the civil and military chief of the town.

Arcadio had been the fruit of a loving relationship between José Arcado Jr. and Pilar Ternera, the manager of a brothel. He was raised in the home of his grandparents on the condition that his origin was hidden from him. He grew up thinking he was the son of the great patriarch. When he is appointed head of Macondo, Arcadio becomes a dictator and tyrannizes the town. He is shot by the conservatives.

During his activity as leader of the Liberals, Colonel Aureliano Buendía faces a total of 32 battles, of which he always comes out the loser. Tired, the colonel soon understands that armed struggle is meaningless.

Eventually, Aureliano signs a peace treaty, after which he attempts to commit suicide. He returns to Macondo, where he will spend the rest of his life making and remaking little gold fishes.

Colonel Aureliano

Marco Cabras: Illustration of Colonel Aureliano Buendía in his military retirement, making and remaking little gold fish.

III stage: banana fever

Aureliano conceives 17 children of different mothers. One of them, called Aureliano Triste, promotes the train to Macondo, which activates commerce and allows the arrival of inventions such as the telegraph and the cinema. This attracts investment by a foreign group in a banana plantation.

The plantation generates the illusion of prosperity for the people, but a workers' strike will cause all this to end in a real massacre. The investors, after exploiting the town, retire with their money and Macondo returns to poverty.

From that moment on, the town suffered constant rains for almost five years. Úrsula, the centennial matriarch who has taken care of the whole family, waits for the end of the rains to die and rest her peace.

During the last days of Úrsula, Aureliano (Babylon) was born, the last descendant of the Buendía. Aureliano is the natural son of Meme and Mauricio Babilonia, an apprentice mechanic who is always chased by a swarm of yellow butterflies.

Meme's religious and tyrannical mother, Fernanda del Carpio, opposes the relationship, takes Mauricio out of the way, sends Meme to a convent, takes the child from him and raises him, making him believe that he has been found in a basket.

Stage IV: the end of Macondo

Years go by and little by little the town empties. Aureliano Babilonia, who was characterized by being wise, spends his life deciphering the scrolls that Melquíades had written.

Meanwhile, his aunt Amaranta Úrsula, married to Gastón, returns from Europe. Without knowing of their relationship, both fall in love, Gastón leaves but she becomes pregnant.

During childbirth, in which she dies, she gives birth to a boy with a pig's tail. Aureliano tries to seek help, but when he finds only a bartender, he gets drunk and falls asleep. When he wakes up and returns, the boy has been eaten by ants.